The Poem Of The Novel Poem by Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide

The Poem Of The Novel

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Reading easy, reading The Night Ocean
by Paul La Farge,
at the bottom of a page,
a poet read: In the
courtyard, the students were

The rest of the line was blank.
He appropriated the blank

and turned the novel into a poem:
pencilled after '... were'
'mouthing and wildstyling in the sand
possible names for their band
or crude truths about their land'.

Thursday, June 22, 2017
Topic(s) of this poem: art,books,mistake,poetry
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
page 337. Penguin New York.2017
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Paul Warren 22 June 2017

I'll have to look for the book.

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Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide
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